I would recommend uploading your raw data to GedMatch, which can handle data from all platforms (23andme, Ancestry, FTDNA, MyHeritage and at least 15 others), allowing matches to be found between rela

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I think this is normal procedure; updates to existing trees are carried out in batches twice or three times a year. Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

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Could you kindly provide names, act numbers and higher definition scans please? You might do better to post to ViewMate to make enlarging easier. Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

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If the record is on the Polish Archives site (szukaj....) there's a "download" link below the image. Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

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Another aspect to this query: I sent an update a year or two ago and it hasn't been processed. Will this eventually be processed, and if so, when? and if not, when should I send a new update? Nicole H

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As stated in several replies, information in databases should only be corrected if the indexer clearly misread the original record. No information absent from the original record should be added. You

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It's an affidavit saying David FRANKFURTER, son of married couple Josef L. FRANKFURTER and Kati KOLMAN, was born "here" (in Galanta) in 1848 in wedlock.

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In fact clicking "View/Reply Online" below a message opens a window where you can scroll down till you see a button "view all n messages in topic". This is certainly an improvement over the previous s

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There are two issues in this thread: a) endogamy and b) DNA bias. a) Endogamy is not peculiar to Ashkenazi Jews. In the past, most folks married within their own village, and marrying a cousin was not

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It's the death registration of Isaac SEELIG. I've responded on Viewmate. Nicole Heymans

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I agree with Eva Lawrence's view. In my own search for my maternal grandmother's ancestors, I have run into several instances of families A and B with the same family name, same father's given name an

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My mother's aunt married a widower with 4 very young children, some time in the 1920s. The grandchildren were adults before they discovered grandma was not their biological grandma. Death records are

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When searching for adoptees' potential biological relatives, DNAGedCom is an absolute must. https://www.dnagedcom.com/ Unlike GedMatch which requires downloading raw data by contributors, this site co

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I hadn't previously come across this meaning of "notions". In the UK these items are "haberdashery". "England and America are two great nations separated by a common language". (G.B. Shaw). Nicole Hey

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Thank you Jan for this piece of history! Which connects with my own family history. In 1940 my mother's German Jewish family was living in Antwerp, Belgium. During the phony war, Belgian authorities h

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I uploaded a GedCom update to FTJP in July 2019 and the online data hasn't yet been updated. I understood priority was migrating the website to NextGeneration, so I hope data presently in the queue sh

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"ów" is a genitive plural ending, often tagged on to maiden names, when it means "of the house of". Often the final syllable is cut off before adding the declination, so it's not always obvious what t

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I maintain my databases offline in Legacy, and export in GedCom format when updating my MyHeritage or JGFF trees. When exporting to GedCom for public viewing, I disactivate export of anyone marked "pr

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Such occurrences were not peculiar to Jewish citizens. My grain of salt: My father was born out of wedlock in England in 1916 to a C of E mother. My grandfather, a Belgian soldier wounded in 1914, had

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I have combed and indexed a number of records from Posen region, Prussia and stillbirths or deaths within minutes or hours of birth were registered as such, usually without given name; although I have

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